Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made Little Candy a child star any time she wanted. Little Candy did not want, and instead went to nearby Westlake and to school in Switzerland and eventually to the University of Pennsylvania. College social life bored her (she neither smokes nor drinks), and she spent much of her extracurricular time modeling in New York. Eventually she caught the eye of Director Sidney Lumet, who was casting the film version of Mary McCarthy's The Group...
...other than their own. Preliminary checks by the Health, Education and Welfare Department have turned up at least 14 school systems where the use of various forms of "ability grouping," an increasingly debatable educational tool, has resulted in segregated classrooms. In some desegregated schools, blacks are kept out of extracurricular activities and forced to ride segregated buses. In Huntsville. Ala., 113 blacks walked out of a high school pep rally to protest the playing of Dixie, and a fight with white students ensued. The school board suspended the blacks for "leaving school without permission." One black eighth-grader in Louisiana...
Except for a few other isolated examples of permissiveness-some undergraduates can get course credit by working for the Urban Field Service-opportunities for field work at Harvard remain largely extracurricular...
...Suharto pledged an all-out attack on corruption in high places. "The fight against corruption is under my direct leadership," he declared. He endorsed recommendations prohibiting government officials from accepting commissions from Indonesian and foreign businessmen. He ordered high of ficials to report their total incomes, including profits from extracurricular activities. He has also ordered the attorney general to streamline an anticorruption task force, and he submitted to Parliament a new bill that would render those who accept kickbacks and payoffs liable to fines and imprisonment...
Last year the Faculty met twice on the ROTC issue; first it voted to make it an extracurricular activity and then it voted that what it had meant at the first meeting was that ROTC should be abolished. This spring he Faculty went through a similar experience. After the student vote to strike in the wake of President Nixon's Cambodian invasion, the Faculty voted to permit students to put off work until the Fall to permit them to engage in political activity. It met a week later and changed its mind, voting a system of optional pass-fail...